First 100 Mile Ride EVER!
I think the term Woohoo is appropriate here! Well, i've accomplished my first ever 100 miler,and in just over 10 hours by the official timing chip. I'll write an account of the day below, so if you don't want all the boring details, switch off now.. :) The morning had arrived. The few days leading up to Sunday, I had been ignoring the fact that I would be cycling nearly double that which I had cycled in a day before. My longest ride so far had been a 60 mile hilly ride and I was dead at the end of that,....
Second Brisbane Cycle
Another ride up Mount Cootha this morning, much easier than the last ride, only 3 stops on the way up and they were not the 'gasping - i'm going to be sick' stops that i had last time. Not sure what changed, but i did pump up the rear tyre a bit, so maybe? May have also been a bit cooler this morning too. Route: ----- * [CycleMeter Map](http://maps.google.com/?q=http://share.abvio.com/64fb/04e7/4d76/8cbf/Cyclemeter-Cycle-20120321-0626.kml) Videos: ------ * On the way up... http://contour.com/stories/going-up-mt-cootha * On the way down... http://contour.com/stories/coming-down-mt-cootha....
Mt Cootha Ride
Pretty tough ride, new bike, 22ºC, 1000ft climb and i've not been cycling for a couple of weeks. First time running with my cam though, links to videos at the end. Mt Cootha is a 1000ft viewpoint over the city or brisbane, getting there is pretty easy with the excellent set of cycleways and tracks that they have here, once at the bottom, it was just a slog to the top. I had been there in a car last year so kind of knew what to expect, but it was still tough. I forgot to turn on the camera on the....
Brisbane bike shortage solved
Sitting on the balcony of my room in brisbane, i'm currently looking out over a soggy, rainy morning. Not much changed from cardross, well, except the temperature is about 20ºc higher! Initially I though this work trip would put a big damper on cycling, due to time in work, and well, the lack of a bike, but I've sorted one of these. I'm now the proud owner of a Specialized Roubaix Comp, second hand, but really well looked after and looks and feels brand new. Its little comfort though while its pouring down outside. But the rain won't last long and....
Killer Hills
March 01, 2012
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cycling
Longest cycle to date, 60 miles. Hills were fine, its when i got back down on to the flat bit that I started to feel it around 45 miles. Don't know how long it took me to get home from there, but thats where I lost most of my time I think. There were at least 2 big climbs, with rolling roads in between till about mile 40, after that a simulated hill climb with the kind assistance of a headwind the whole way round the kilcreggan peninsula and home from faslane. http://cntrl.us/CgEh....
First ride out of the year
February 19, 2012
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wintertraining, cycling
Nice. First ride of the year and I already feel better than at any time last year... faster recovery, more strength.. its going to be a good year!! Evidently, the new tyres, spin classes and sufferfest vids are a good combination. If it wasn’t for a small break to fix my front wheel that was on the wrong way round by dales during the service, I would have broken my personal best up to garelochhead by 3-5 mins.....
The journey so far…
February 19, 2012
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cycling
As i started down the road, cycling the 20 miles up to work for the first time, the words ‘am i crazy, i’ll never make it’ were running through my head. When I was in school i lived on my bike. I cycled to school, back from school and after school i went out on my bike too. It was all short rides though, this was miles away, but as it went on, and I got further i began to think i could do this. My target time was under 2hrs, and once i’d hit that my target was 1:30hrs, my....
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Fundraising for Chartiy
This year
i'd like to ask you to sponsor my cycling to raise funds for a girls hostel in Pakistan. It's ran by a friend of mine who was a Church of Scotland missionary, she retired back to the UK, but only lasted 4 weeks. She then returned to pakistan and is now running the hostel on her pension.
Education for women in pakistan is sometimes hard to come by, the around 350 girls in the hostel are all from remote villages and would not get any education if it were not for the hostel for them to stay during term time.
342 miles is the total of all the events i'm signed up to this year, but that doesn't include all the training that I'm doing, so please sponsor me below
Donation link to follow...
